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Not listened to it in a while, went back to it today and, I actually cannot get over this album. Thought I'd know this album well enough by now not to STILL get this feeling! Even with a back-catalogue like that it's just...WAOW. AWOAW.

Do you agree? Do you disagree? "I've never rated Bowie tbh.." isn't allowed btw. 'Cause it's inhumane and untrue.

Not sure if its his best though. Been a Huge bowie fan since i was about 16 and i'm now 36 so thats twenty years of listening to him (a lot) and i still can't deceide what his best album is. My favourite is either scary monsters or low but from 1970 to 1980 he was the best and most influential artist in the world imo.

As every single album he made between Hunky Dory in 1971 and Scary Monsters in 1980 is a stone cold classic. It is without a doubt the longest continuous streak of high quality material in the history of popular music.

My top 5 would go as follows:
Low
Ziggy Stardust
Hunky Dory
Station to Station
Aladin Sane

I flew to Denver to see him in the Elephant Man; SF to see him at Neil Young's Bridge School concert, paid $250 for a DJ picture disc that crackheads stole from me in Minnesota. I've got an original Man Who Sold the World...worth about a million dollars!!

Everything that was released on RCA (except the self-titled reissue and Pinups) is 10/10. OK, Young Americans is only 9.9/10. So it's hard for me to pick a favorite.

*shakes head* I promised DiSers, about 8 years ago I'd stop with the Bowie fanaticism. But I've been drinking. So I'll tell you:

Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane, Low, Heroes and Scary Monsters are the 11/10 records. Ziggy, Station to Station and Lodger are the 10/10 records. Diamond Dogs, Young Americans drop way off: they're only 9.9/10.

The person above who noted that Bowie's 10 year stretch of brilliant music is the greatest in the history of mankind is absolutely correct. It's a fluke of nature-- will never happen again.